Just released a new version of Amiri font, This is a mostly cleanup release, but now the font is more or less in a good shape and can be usable to some extent.

Update: kerning under windows (Uniscribe) would break mark positioning in 0.012, just released 0.013 to fix this (hopefully).

Amiri 0.012 (2011-04-26), A Long Night

  • New glyphs:
    • Add localised Urdu and Sindhi digits (‘locl’ feature).
    • Add tabular numbers feature (‘tnum’).
    • European numbers and some punctuation marks from Linux Libertine.
    • Add at sign with experimental Arabic variant (‘locl’ feature, too).
    • Add triple dot punctuation mark (U+061E).
    • Add middle dot (U+00B7).
    • Reimplement الله igature properly and added فلله ligature; the code now much more careful on when to activate this ligature.
  • Cleanup:
    • Massive cleanup removing tens of too similar glyphs, making the font more unified and consistent.
    • This cleanup results in more contextual variants that were missing before, yet the font is smaller not larger.
    • Scaled Tashkil marks down by 80%, they are now smaller leading too less mark collision.
    • The Arabic digits are more polished.
    • Misc. mark fixes.
    • Less use of exotic OpenType features to work with even more OpenType implementations.

  • More kerning pairs.

  • Bug fixes: 3234138, 3110760, 3087332, 3073139, 3211187, 3211239 and 3078741